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...died when the troupe was in its heyday, the personnel of the historic little combination will be the same, although a few extra players may be added. Russell Robinson, Ragas' successor, who composed Margie and Palesteena, will again be the pianist, after four years on the Horn & Hardart (Automat) broadcast. Edwards and Sbarbaro, who have had spasmodic club jobs in Manhattan, are glad to get in regular harness again. Plan is to tour this summer, probably through New England and Pennsylvania. Observed canny Drummer Sbarbaro last week: "With all the old soldiers getting their bonuses there ought...
...dual role. As Princess Catterina Theodora Margherita ("Zizi'') of the Kingdom of Taronia, she is brought to the U. S. to help market $50,000,000 worth of Taronian bonds. As Nancy Lane. Miss Sidney is a shabby minor actress, spending her last 17? in an Automat. Princess Zizi fails ill of mumps. Fifty detectives hunting a double for her come upon...
...peak of the market his paper profits were more than $100,000,000 but Doc Crawford continued to lunch at a Horn & Hardart Automat...
...evening last December Channing H. Tobias, Negro clergyman, walked into a Horn & Hardart automat in Manhattan. It was during the hours when the restaurant offers table service. But the waitresses snubbed him, neglected to take his order. He called for the hostess. She promised to bring the manager. When he did not appear. Clergyman Tobias, thoroughly angered, summoned a policeman off the street, made him produce the manager. After an hour's wrangling Channing Tobias, no ordinary clergyman but senior secretary of the Y. M. C. A.'s colored work, stormed out in disgust, sued Horn & Hardart...
Last week the case was tried by Municipal Court Justice Samuel Ecker and an all-white jury. Counsel for Horn & Hardart was Nicholas Pecora. brother of Investigator Ferdinand Pecora. His argument was that the automat had been shorthanded, and that even a Horn & Hardart executive had had to wait one hour before being served that night. Unimpressed, the jury awarded a verdict to Negro Tobias. Judge Ecker ordered Horn & Hardart...